2011/05/30

Natural Ingredients for Guarding Heart Health

Is it true that heart disease can not be known by the owner until death?
The answer is no, considering the human body is equipped with the ability to ring a special signal when there are irregularities in it. Signals are easily recognized people are headache or dizziness, mouth sores and nausea.
Unfortunately, most people do not respond to the arrival of the signal correctly and instead seek immediate pain medication or discomfort that occurs. No wonder if we know the people who take medication twice daily headache every day without the desire to seek the cause of dizziness in his head.
Would signal the existence of cardiac dysfunction must exist, since this organ is the body's motor activity. If the motor is slightly hindered, the reaction will occur immediately. Unfortunately, as usually people ignore it.




Clogged pipe
The heart is actually in charge of a muscle pumping blood throughout the body. In order to perform its duties, the muscle was equipped with a variety of pipes to channel the blood being pumped from the heart.
If the channel is in good condition, that is flexible and free of fouling, the flow of blood from and returning to the heart would not be blocked. Conversely, if the pipe walls are rigid and fully covered by various kinds of dirt, then certainly disrupted the smooth running of blood.
Disorders that cause the heart is forced to work even harder for blood to flow into every part of the body and the hard work that was the beginning of the rise in blood pressure.
The heart is working harder requires more blood flow as well for himself. But it need not be met when the small blood vessels of heart began to rigid and narrow.
This is the situation that then we know as coronary heart disease, namely a narrowed artery. Coronary heart disease is the number one killer.
Thus, the most effective way to prevent heart disease is to prevent a rise in blood pressure and cholesterol. The move should be accompanied also by the improvement of lifestyle, ie stop smoking, lose weight, exercise regularly and avoid excessive stress.

 
Strength of Nature Materials
Preventing is always better than cure. The formula that must be adopted when we will make use of natural materials for medical purposes.
Natural ingredients of garlic, onion and ginger no doubt its worth to prevent blood clotting. If the blood clots be prevented, then the heart attack can also be minimized.
In the cardiovascular system, garlic can help lower blood cholesterol levels, thin the blood and efficacious antihypertensive. The results indicated, 1 g garlic a day can lower bad blood cholesterol (LDL) and triglycerides at 70% of volunteers.
Other researchers further stated, only takes a few cloves of garlic just to maintain normal cholesterol levels already in the blood.
The compound content of garlic called ajoene known to work as an anti-clotting blood is very potent. By working as a barrier to blood clotting, the garlic is efficacious for the prevention of heart attack and stroke disorders.
In addition to garlic, onion benefits for blood thinners can not be ignored. In this case, its use as a deterrent would be better, especially because the onions can help maintain healthy blood vessel coronary artery disease by raising levels of good fats (HDL) body. Half the onions can raise HDL 20-30%.

The Advantageous of  Ginger




Ginger is so close in the daily life of Indonesian society. But it turned out to make people become less concerned about health benefits.
Yet even some of the properties of ginger have been recognized by the medical world. Such as anti-coagulant (anti-clotting), lowering blood pressure and stimulating the heart.
According to experts, the efficacy of ginger as an anti-coagulant expressed stronger than garlic and onion. Indian researchers show that ginger is efficacious lowering blood cholesterol levels in animal experiments.
In Java, at least there are three kinds of ginger, namely elephant ginger, red ginger and small ginger, which are different from each other. Ginger elephant most often used for various purposes of everyday life, while the use of red ginger is more often linked to health purposes.

 
Green tea





 

Drinking green tea is usually associated with weight loss. Though there are benefits that are more important for health.
Green tea is popular for centuries in Asia Continent region was shown to control blood pressure. Epigalokatechin compound capable of protecting the body from dangerous free radicals that damage cells, helps lower bad cholesterol and increase good HDL cholesterol. Requirement is simple, namely drinking regularly.

 

 
The Yellow


 



Turmeric to fight heart disease? Right, because the compound content in it can lower blood cholesterol levels by spur formation of bile. In addition, several scientific studies prove the efficacy of turmeric to prevent blood clots that trigger heart attacks.

 

 

 
Tips
Do not Overstated
A variety of natural materials that are useful for maintaining heart health easily available around us. Felt it would benefit only if we consume it regularly accompanied by a healthy lifestyle.
This needs to be recognized by everyone, given that heart disease patients to take medicine the doctor is not allowed to eat garlic and ginger casually without medical supervision. If it is violated, it is possible there will be bleeding from the blood is too thin.

 
Dr Mangestuti, MS, Apt.
Department Farmakognosi and Phytochemicals
Faculty of Pharmacy
Airlangga University
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